4/5/25: Live Music featuring guitarists Liam Grant & Glenn Jones
7:00pm, Emery Performance Space
Free and open to the public
Emery Community Arts Center welcomes guitarists Liam Grant and Glenn Jones for a concert on Saturday, April 5th at 7:00pm in Emery’s performance space. The concert is free and open to the public.
Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving up-tempo rags recall the likes of Grant’s pedagogue; Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others. His new album, “Prodigal Son,” released by VHF Records last month, is a portrait of an artist on the road, changing fast, recording things as they spring from the fountain. The sound is raw – grass and dirt instead of pre-fab; homemade/handmade instead of high-tech, etc. There’s a visceral quality and immediacy of culture that’s being lost every day in modern life – Prodigal Son is a chance to grab some of it back.
Glenn Jones is a veteran guitarist from the cult post-rock ensemble CUL DE SAC and innovative fingerpicker who has spent the last two decades cultivating an idiosyncratic vernacular for guitar and banjo across ten critically acclaimed solo albums. Steeped in both American Primitive guitar music as well as rock and experimental music, Jones creates rich sonic tapestries with a distinct and stirring voice. Endlessly curious, he has spent the better part of four decades exploring the boundaries of expression and storytelling with the guitar and banjo. On his 2022 album, “Vade Mecum,” (Thrill Jockey) Jones draws on his personal history to tell stories with elaborate musical detail and emotional weight. Exploring the complexity of personal experience, emotions and our shared histories, Vade Mecum finds Jones painting his music in boundaryless colors, captivatingly vivid.
Since his last performance at Emery Community Arts Center in 2023, Grant has continued to tour extensively both domestically and internationally, including a month-long tour across Europe and the UK earlier this year promoting his previous release “Amoskeag” (Carbon Records, Feeding Tube Records). Together, Grant and Jones have recently performed at The Clark Institute (MA), The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum (MA), The Gardner Museum (MA), Epsilon Spires (VT), The Phoenix Gallery (VT), The Apohadion (ME), LA Arts (ME), and Casa Del Popolo (CA).
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